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It has been estimated that death cases in kids below five years of age have fallen from 12.7million per year nearly 25 years ago to 5.9million this year. The World Health Organisation, the World Bank Group, the UN’s Population Division and the UN children’s agency Unicef came up with the report revealing this fall in child mortality.
The report reveals that in the face of the decline, 16,000 children below the age of five still die each day. It has been reported by Unicef on the basis of the data that 48million lives of kids under 5 years of age have been saved after governments started making efforts to achieve the UN goal nearly 15 years ago.
It is expected that world leaders will adopt new goals for another 15 years at a UN summit to be held this month. Deputy executive director Geeta Rao Gupta has said that almost 15 years ago, several countries tripled the rate of decline of under-5s mortality.
According to her, “But the far too large number of children still dying from preventable causes before their fifth birthday, and indeed within their first month of life, should impel us to redouble our efforts to do what we know needs to be done”.
As per the report, the major reasons behind deaths of children under the age of 5 are pneumonia, premature birth, complications that occur during labor and delivery, sepsis, which is a life-threatening complication of an infection and also malaria.
